CHRISTIAN ROSENKRUTZ (invented in 1623 but allegedly b. 1378 - d. 1484)
Credited for creating the occult society known as Rosicrucian
Order. There have been dozens of groups calling themselves
"Rosicrucian" throughout the centuries, and there are several in
existence today. The most well known one today is probably the Ancient
Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross based out of San Jose,
California. Christian Rozenkruts, supposedly changed lead
into
gold, discovered ever-burning lamps, lived for 106 years, had amazing
powers...and in reality never actually even existed!!! Christian
Rozenkrutz was a hoax that has gotten a lot of milage since its
creation.

The Rosicrucian order first came to the attention of the world in Paris
in 1623, when anonymous leaflets were distributed around the city
announcing the “invisible college” coinciding with a new book published
by a bookseller titled Fama Fraternitatis which detailed the life of
the previously-unknown Christian Rosenkrutz.The book claimed Rozenkrutz
had traveled to Turkey, Moroco, and Egypt to study alchemy...a trip
that would have been unlikely for a lone European Christian at that
time in Muslim controlled lands. The book claimed Paracelcus had
learned his secrets from an earlier book by Rosenkrutz...but in reality
Paracelsus had no powers, and he certainly never heard of
Rosenkrutz since the hoax came about years after Paracelsus
died.
Paracelsus makes no mention of a Christian Rosenkrutz in any of his
writings, which doesn’t come as a surprise. Fama Fraternis said the
Rosicrucians were going to give millions of dollars worth of gold to
rebuild the Roman Empire, since they could easily manufacture large
quantities of gold and had no use for it. It’s not hard to see why
people would be attracted to such an order...why, for strictly
spiritual purposes of course!

The whole Rosicrucian legend
was started as a
joke to make fun of occultists by a Lutheran minister named Valentin
Andrea, who later admitted to the hoax. Andrea’s family crest
is
a cross with four roses, which is where he got the idea for the rose
& cross symbol of Rosicrucianism. Historians who examined the
book
in our times have said the book is clearly a political tract written in
the form of a satire. Andrea was depressed over the devastation brought
about by the 30 years war, and wrote a tract of political satire, and
also to poke fun of people who believed in the occult and alchemy. In
fact, most of the material for Fama Fraternis, is actually plagiarized
from a book published in 1615 titled Reformation of The World, written
by Trajano Boccalini. (The History of Magic and The Occult by Kurt
Seligmann, p.287). And while scholars of history recognize
Fama
Fraternis as a book of political satire, the problem with satire is
that it often goes over the heads of the intended audience!

Even though the tract was meant to mock
people who
believed in alchemy, several people who read the tract took it
seriously. People began to earnestly look for this Rosicrucian Order.
Some were willing to oblige the seekers. There are numerous police
records of scams that took people’s money in exchange for the hope of
joining this order. Various "Rosicrucian" groups arose to meet the
demands of the naive and greedy, hoping to find the secrets of changing
lead into gold and have eternal youth.

Many were simply outright scams where people gave
money to
confidence men in exchange for information to be delievered later...and
never heard from them again. In the years following the publication of
Fama Fraternis, the Paris police recorded several incidents of such
scams where people were willingly separated from their money in hopes
of learning mystical Rosicrucian secrets.

Some modern day occultists, in order to
save
face, have begun to say Christian Rozenkrutz was merely
"symbolic", and not an actual person. Anyone who follows Rosicrucianism
proves Andreas’ joke right...that occultists will believe anything!
Nevertheless, many people even today belong to one of the various
Rosicrucian orders...each one claiming to be the only true order and
all the others fake. The truth is, they’re all fakes, since it’s all
based on a hoax, and was never really intended to be taken seriously!

The largest Rosicrucian Order today is
the “Ancient
Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross” based out of San Jose, California.
Some close rivals include the “Rosicrucian Fellowship” in Oceanside,
California, the “Builders of the Adytum”, and the “Rosicrucian Society”
of New York (which claims the order's founder was Jesus Christ
reincarnated as a woman, apparently taking a cue from the
Shakers). Each Rosicrucian Society
considers itself
the only “real” Rosicrucian order, and the rest are fakes. Like the
Freemasons, they claim they helped build Solomon’s Temple. Most offer
mail order or internet courses in the occult and it is possible to be a
member without ever leaving one’s home as long as the membership dues
are paid. Of course, one wonders why they need money if they're able to
change lead into gold.

The “AMORC” group claims it has been in
existence
for thousands of years (which of course it can’t prove), claiming the
Egyptian Pharo Amonhotep IV was it’s founder. Members keep an altar in
their home with busts of Amonhotep and Nefertiti on their altars along
with an alchemical cross. The Pharo Amenhotep was a proponent of sun
worship whom Lewis called “the Son of the Sun”. Sorry guys, but Sun
worshippers and people who keep an altar with Egyptian idols on it
cannot be Christians!

The real founder of this order wasn’t an
Egyptian
Pharo, but rather a marketing genius named H. Spencer Lewis. Lewis
started the order in 1903 with a press conference claiming the order
had resurfaced after 108 years of dormancy, and “proved” his powers by
changing lead into gold (by slight of hand, no doubt). The bar Lewis
claimed was gold was allowed to be passed around for the reporters to
examine...but no scientists were present. Of course, the expirement has
never been duplicated since. Thanks to this publicity stunt and massive
advertisement in newspapers and magazines, AMORC quickly grabbed many
followers (no doubt hoping they too could change lead into gold), egar
to plunk down a few dollars each month for monthly pamphlets supposedly
giving secrets of the occult.

Oddly enough, for someone who could create gold, Lewis wasn't above a
little bond fraud. According to the newspaper, The Sun, in an artcile
dated Tuesday, June 18, 1918 revealed Harvey Spencer Lewis arrested on
a charge of bond fraud. 'The raid followed information that for several
weeks has had the attention of the District Attorney's interest in the
case comes through the allegation that Lewis and his associates in the
so-called American
Rosae Crucis were selling fraudulent 6 per cent gold bonds." Lewis also
claimed he had devised a way of evding the draft.

The order has a grade system similar to
Freemasonry. Grades 1-8 can be earned through mail order study. Grades
9 10 11 and 12 are called the “Illuminati” and the members of these
levels
are said to meet out of the body on the astral plane. This is the
clverest gimick of all, making members think they can be part of the
legendary Illuminati! But of course, invitaions are given “on the
astral plane” by members who can travel out of their body. Since no
Rosicrucian can really travel out of their body (also called “Astral
Projection”), the last three degrees exist only in the minds of deluded
Rosicrucians.

AMORC publishes about 3 dozen books for
sale with catchy titles (for boring books) like Mental Poisoning, The
Secret Teachings of Jesus, and Mastering the Cycles of Fate. Lewis,
like Heindel, borrowed a lot of ideas from Blavatsky, including the
idea that he was in telepathic communication with a being called "Coot
Hoomi". Lewis decided to spell it Khuthumi to make it look more
Egyptian. In any event, "Coot Hoomi" was later determined to be
Blavatsky's play on words for "Col. Olcott", a naieve, but devoted
follower of Blavatsky's. There is no real "Coot Hoomi", no matter how
you spell it.

Lewis claims Rosicrucianism came to
America with the
early settlers. The introductory pamphlet, The Mastery of Life even
shows an early settler’s village and claims it is “a Rosicrucian
settlement”. In reality, the settlement was that of Quakers, not
Rosicrucians. The booklet also quotes several famous people - - from
Benjamin Franklyn to Socrates - -and indicates they were Rosicrucians
(they weren’t). Like Wiccans, Freemasons, and
Neopagans,
Rosicrucians created a fake history for themselves. Also like
these groups, they claim to teach how to develop occult powers.
Psychometry, telepathy, astral projection, and spirit communuication
are some of the powers they claim to teach.

One of the lesser known groups, the Rosicrucian
Fellowship, was founded by a Max Van Grass. Grass later changed his
name to Max Hiendel (not much of an improvement) after a trip to
Germany where Hieldel claims he was intiated into the Rosicrucian
Order. Heindel's occult system seems to be nothing more than
Blavatsky’s Theosophy word for word. The order boasts it doesn’t sell
it’s lessons like it's chief comprtitors, those awful AMORC
Rosicrucians, but gives them away instead. The catch 22 is you have to
by the order’s books to take the courses.

The Rosicrucian Fellowship, the other leading brand of
Rosicrucianism, offers an astrology course, a (very
innacurate) occult Bible course, and a “philosophy” course, which is
really just Theosophy. Expect to spend a couple hundred bucks on the
books for these courses (unless you're smart enough to avoid them). You
may have a hard time finding them, but what a coincidence, the order
just happens to sell them all.

This order claims it goes all the way
back to the
Babylonian Mystery schools and shows a Tower of Babel on their
literature. One wonders how exactly they can be a “Christian Mystery
School” if this were the case. In the order’s magazine, Heindel wrote
an article that said that Rosicrucians worship “the Solar Logos”, or in
other words, they worship the Sun. AMORC also seems to entertain the
idea of sun worship, and at one time offered rose incense for sale in
their catalog with the note that in ancient Egypt incense was offered
at morning noon and evening to “the sun god”.

MAX HEINDEL Founder of the Rosicrucain Fellowship. Born Max Von Gross
to a Dutch noble family, he grew up in poverty, just the same. While
his family were blue bloods, they didn’t have the green stuff. His
mother scrimped and managed to get he and his siblings a good
education. As an adult, Van Gross immigrated to the United States and
got a job as an engineer. Von Gross became enamored with the occult and
racial hogwash of Arinosophy on a trip to Germany and later changed his
name to Max Heindel. Swallowing the whole racist Aryan
nonsense
of Theosophy and Arinosophy, he wanted his name to sound more
German. He claimed to have been initiated into Rosicrucianism while in
Europe and started the Rosicrucian Fellowship in Oceanside, California.
The Fellowship became a rival of sorts to the more well known
AMORC. The Fellowship claims to give free lessons in Esoteric
Bible Studies (which are woefully inaccurate!), Astrology, and Western
Philosophy (which is actuality just a course in Theosophy). The catch
to the “free” lessons is that you have to buy the textbooks for the
courses...all of which are published and sold exclusively by the
Rosicrucian Fellowship.

Although the Rosicrucian Fellowship
claims to be a
Christian outfit, the evidence speaks otherwise. The group used to
feature the Tower of Babel Ziggurat on their literature...an object the
Bible records as having been offensive to God. Like all occult
societies, The Fellowship claims to be much older than it really is,
and says it’s origins go back to the Babylonian Mystery
schools
although it offers no actual proof (it can’t since it’s a lie), which
would certainly be a strange claim for a Christian outfit! Heindel
taught Lucifer was a “benefactor” to mankind, rather than a devil, who
gave man knowledge. Heindel revealed in a 1933 edition of
Rays
From The Cross magazine that the god Rosicrucians worship is “The Solar
Logos”, or in other words, a sun god, which would certainly mean they
are Neopagans rather than Christians! Rosicrucians claim to
able
to heal people with occult powers at a distance (called absent healing)
and push a vegetarian diet. Lucifer apparently wasn’t much of a
benefactor to VanGorss/Heindel, and he was said to have spent the last
decade of his life in both poor health and dire straights
financially...as do most occultists it seems!

PASCHAL BEVERLY RANDOLPH (1825-1875) He wrote many books about sex
magic (which he called the “rites of Elusis”), and how it could
enlighten people. Good luck trying to decipher his convoluted writings
written in a muddled 19th century colloquial English. His works
inspired people like Aleister Crowley, the members of the O.:T.:O.:.,
and Henri Gamache, and are still in print.

Randolph was the illegitimate son of a plantation
owner
and a barmaid (Randolph once remarked his parents "did not stop to pay
fees to the justice or to the priest."). His mother died from smallpox
when he was 5, and he went to live with a half sister. He ran away from
home at 15 and became a sailor. When the spiritualist
movement
kicked off, Randolph jumped on the bandwagon, appearing on stage as a
medium and advertising his services.

There have been legends and claims about
Randolph
that have arisen that have been questionable. One is his supposed
friendship with President Abraham Lincoln, and being denied to ride on
the train carrying Lincoln’s body because he was a Negro. He
claimed to have been a medical doctor, although how and when he
received his training is unclear. An early advocate of “free love”, in
February 1872 Randolph was jailed for promoting immoral sex, although
later acquitted. He married his second wife, Kate, while
still
legally married to his first wife, meaning Randolph was a bigamist.

Apparently Randolph’s sex magic didn't
bring
happiness, because he committed suicide at age 49, leaving his wife and
son to live in poverty. Sex magic doesn't get you anything except
perhaps a venereal disease. Sex magic isn’t magic...it’s nothing more
than an excuse to have sex and a way for gullible people to be seduced.
When you realize this, you will be a step closer to a better life.
Would you want to wind up like poor Mr. Randolph?

P.B. Randolph Bigamist and fake who committed suicide.
RUEBEN SWINEBURN CLYMER (1878-1966) A Rosicrucian rival to H. Spencer
Lewis...and more or less, Max Heindel. Clymer was an unlikely follower
of P.B. Randolph. As mentioned, Clymer made public the charge that H.
Spencer Lewis was initiated by Aleister Crowley. One group of Clymer's
Rosicrucians eventually merged with another Rosicrucian group that
has ties to Aleister Crowley's Thelema...ironically coming
full
circle and becoming a sort of “cousin” to the AMORC (well, technically,
at least)

Clymer bought P.B. Randolph’s
occult archives
from his widow, and kept Randolph’s books in print. Clymer claimed he
succeeded Edward H Brown (known as 'Eulis') as head of a Rosicrucian
order, but this has been proven false. Clymer created his 'Fraternitas
Rosae Crucis' in 1920, two years before Brown actually died, and simply
invented the story of being Brown's sucessor. His official biography
boasts that 3,000,000 people received Clymer’s teachings during his
lifetime, which sounds very unlikely. My guess is the number is
probably closer to a few hundred...and that number would be stretched
out over more than half a century. Had his audience rose to 3,000,000,
his organization would dwarf the AMORC...which is hardly a house hold
name, either. Clymer’s group never achieved the commercial success or
membership numbers of his rival, the AMORC, or even the Rosicrucian
Fellowship.

Clymer had his own bizzare views of
Christianity and
race, which makes it so unusual he chose to follow Randolph. Swiburne
claimed “Jesus was an Aryan in whose veins flowed Aryan blood”
[Handbook of Today’s Religions], even though his idol Randolph was
black. Clymer was said to have a portrait of Jesus on his wall,
depicting him as a blond haired, blue eyed man...an impossibility since
Jesus was a middle eastern Jew! Jesus certainly didn’t appear different
from other people since he was able to blend into a crowd and since
Judas had to point him out to the Romans [ref. Bible verses] and could
escape crowds by blending in, impossible of a blue eyed Aryan [Bible
verses]

Some of his teachings sound chillingly
similar to
those ideas espoused by Nazis. Clymer was a strong believer that
expectant mothers should follow an occult regimen of diet and
meditation to bring about a race of “Supermen”. A biography
written by the Rosicrucians (probably ghost written by Clymer himself)
from 1955 states "Dr. Clymer is convinced more firmly than ever that
racial or blood purity is an absolute essential to the attainment of
the highest degree of development not only for the individual, but also
for the country alike... He felt that the man who loses his race pride
begins to deteriorate. This applies to all races as well as
individuals." So Clymer was just yet another Neo-Nazi wolf in
Theosophist sheep clothing.

Oddly enough, Clymer's hero was Paschal Beverly
Randolph,
who's father was said to be white and his mother was of Negro, Indian,
and a little white ancestry! This would seem to fly in the face of his
“racially pure” hogwash hate teaching. The Rosicrucians dispute
Randolph's Negro ancestry...even though Randolph seems to have
identified himself as one in his own writings, and claimed he was
denied riding on the train carrying Linocln's body because of his dark
skin!

Claiming he was trained as a medical
doctor, Clymer
was a actually strong believer in many quack forms of medicine like
Osteopathy. He was considered a quack during his lifetime. This is
probably why he never attained the financial wealth most doctors would
have.

R. Swineburn Clymer, quack, fraud, and racist.

AMORC's
success didn’t go unoticed by Rosicrucians of rival groups who didn’t
like it one bit. R.Swineburn Clymer sued Spencer in court and revealed
some very big skeletons in Spencer's closet. One of these skeletons was
Aleister Crowley! It seems the “Ascended Master” that supposedly
intiated Lewis was none other than Crowley, who “initated” Lewis in a
ritual that took placed behind closed doors for 3 days (and knowing
Crowley, could have involved gay sex and/or drugs and/or animal
sacrifice, considring what his biographers wrote of him). Clymer seemed
to think Spencer only spent 1 day and not the whole three days
supposedly required for the ritual. Clymer also found inconsitancies in
Spencer’s story, and later published them in a book.

Even
though Clymer didn’t get the dough he was hoping to get from AMORC
through his lawsuit, he did succeed in embarassing his rival, at least
a little bit. Clymer, however, was no schoolboy himself. A look at
Clymer’s writings reveals some pretty unflattering things he himself
believed and taught:
“Jesus was born of Gentile parents through whose veins flowed Aryan
blood"
Regardless of the Rosicrucian group, NONE of them conforms to what is
taught about Jesus in the Bible. Clearly the Bible says Jesus was born
of Jewish parents. If he had been a "blond haired blue eyed Aryan" as
Clymer taught, he would not have been hard to distinguish from the
masses. The Bible reveals Jesus looked so ordinary that the Sanhedrin
paid Judas Iscariot 30 pieces of silver to point him out. It also says
Jesus was able to blend in with a crowd when a mob wanted to kill him.
That's not something he could have done if he looked like a member of
the 70's Disco band ABBA.

Jesus taught He was the only way to Heaven, not that there were many
different ways. No where did Jesus teach all religions were true or
that all religious writings were equal. No were is there any record
that Jesus retired to a monastery.

The Rosicrucians are fakes and fruads! If they want people to think
otherwise, let them change lead into gold under cheat proof conditions.
If they can change lead into gold, why do they need your money every
month? If the members of their “Illuminati” level meet by traveling out
of their bodies at will as they claim, let them prove it. Lets set up a
test: Have them astrally project and describe the contents of a locked
room under cheat proof conditions. Why didn’t they use their “gifts” of
mental powers or the “science” of astology to forsee the World Trade
Towers/Petagon/Flight 19 attack on 9-11-2001?

In 1995 in the French Alps, a mass suicide of a Rosicrucian group
calling itself The Order of the Solar Temple took place. The occult
ritual suicide ocurred on the Winter Solstice, a time sacred to the sun
god in Neopagan religions and Thelema. According to Max Heindel of the
Rosicrucian Fellowship, Rosicrucians worship "The Solar Logos" as god,
in other words, they're sun worshipers. The Order Of The Solar Temple
Group must have similar beliefs.

On December 23, on a remote plateau of the French Alps police found 16
charred bodies arranged in a star formation with their feet pointing to
the ashes of a fire. A year earlier another Solar Temple group
committed a similar suicide ritual. Like the rituals of 1994, they all
died by stabbing, asphyxiation, shooting and/or poisoning. Their bodies
were burned to a crisp as part of a "cleansing ritual".

In 1997 in Stolkholme, Sweden yet another Solar Temple group killed
themselves in a mass suicide claiming 48 members. Farewell letters left
by the believers stated that they believed they were leaving to escape
the "hypocrisies and oppression of this world." and that they were
going to the star Sirus. Its top 33 members were known as the Elder
Brothers of the Rosy Cross (an alternative name for the Rosicrucians),
and were headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. Swiss police were on a
heightened state of suicide watch in anticipation to the summer
solstice on June 21.

Gerard Ramseyer, the top justice official in Geneva, said police was
maintaining a "discreet surveillance" of 10 people believed to be known
members of the suicidal Solar Temple Sect. Two of the 10 under
surveillance are believed to be children. All the
suicide/murders
and attempts occurred around the dates of the equinoxes and solstices
which are occult holidays to Wiccans, Neopagans, and Thelemites. Police
think there are at least 100 people in Switzerland who were formerly
close to or had been members of the suicidal cult.

It is believed that The Solar Temple group continues to exist, with
thirty surviving members in Quebec at the St-Anne-de-la-Pérade center,
with from 140 to 500 members remaining worldwide. (The
Florida
Times Union, July 22, 1997) (NOTE: A Rosicrucian occult is
hardly
Christian, but this group is misidentified as a "Christian" group by
the so-called "Ontario Consultants for ReligousTolerance". The group is
run by two Neopagans and an Athiest, and seem to have tolerance for
anything but Christians. )

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